Lacie disk on FW not sleeping after installing Mavericks

UPDATE:

It will not spin down own it own unless the Mac itself goes to sleep.

According to the system information, the disks should go to sleep mode after 10 minutes(default setting) of inactivity. This is not happening.

Disk will go to sleep if ejected now and also if mac goes to sleep but the drives will no go to sleep for inactivity.

Not working for me (Mac mini w OWC external drives). Will spin down when unmounted, but not when computer sleeps or when idle. Will someone remind me why we used to think Apple was so great?

for those who still have problems, take the time to do a bug report @ https://bugreport.apple.com

I getthis message on the bug report link:

"You must be a Registered Apple Developer to file bugs via Bug Reporter."

Same problem here:

External drives using FW will not sleep after the 10 mins of inactivity.

Opps, wrong link. Try this

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Here's what I'm experiencing with my Thunderbolt device:

-when I manually eject the drive from OSX Finder, it isn't spinning down like we want it to.

-however, when I put the computer to sleep, the thunderbolt device's drives do spin down. I believe this is new behavior since upgrading to 10.9.2

for reference, this is the product that I'm using: OWC MercuryHelios+E2 Thunderbolt SSD with eSATA 6Gb/s Storage Expansion

Just spoke with AE - they confirmed that new update has no changes whatsoever related to standby mode of attached drives. It's interesting that some people have had resolution of this issue?

It's also odd that some people have had issues with their thunderbolt drives - this should not be happening (should enter standby mode normally - mine does at least - and reports from Mac Pro so far suggest normal drive activity).

I'm reminded of when Kanye West said "George Bush doesn't care about Black people" - "Apple just doesn't care about FW anymore"

Actually, I'd say that Appple just doesn't care about its users anymore!

I just updated to 10.9.2 and still FW drives (WD in Macally enclosure) do not sleep. Back to square one!

UPDATE:

So this is interesting. I reported earlier that the issue appeared to be solved when using WD Green drives in Voyager Q docks, and it is for the GREEN drives, which is DIFFERENT behavior from 10.9.0 and 10.9.2. The WD Green drives DO go to sleep now when their built in trigger tells them to, like everyone else, they did NOT sleep in .0 and .1. Then other posts today from people saying it didn't fix anything got me thinking, so I pulled other drives to test in the dock. A Seagate Barracuda 7200.13 drive and WD Black.

These drives are NOT power-saving drives like the Greens and lo and behold, same problem as before, they keep spinning and do not sleep even if Energy settings are set to do so, and they stay spinning even after shutdown.

My apologies for getting people's hopes up. I should have tested other drives besides the Greens. Whether by design or unintentionally, SOMETHING changed in .2, as the Greens are working as expected. Based on Lcrooks conversation with the AE, it looks like it was unintentional

UNFORTUNATELY:

No change here - great update, but LaCies (2x8TB, 1x1TB) still loud and swinging away - and consuming energy: neither sleep mode while running (auto-sleep) nor sleep mode after iMac sleeps.... very disappointing.

On an unrelated note mc-ring bearer, would strongly suggest avoiding WD Green or Seagate LP drives in the future. These drives are designed to be as energy efficient as possible and so spin down and up very aggressively. This causes a lot of wear on the drives. Most server environments will never use these drives as they quickly accumulate errors. Saving the environment is important, but these LP drives should be avoided - they're so unreliable.

Food for thought for those of you replacing your "archaic" FW drives with T-Bolt and USB3, the only interfaces Apple seems to support anymore ;)

It appears that if I don't have any of my USB drives connected, my FireWire drives (3 TB drives in OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro enclosures) _will_ go to sleep soon after I put the computer to sleep. With any USB drive also connected, the FW drives refuse to sleep.

I haven't had time to do any thorough testing; it seems like once or twice the FW drives didn't go to sleep even though the USB drives were powered off, but most of the time they are sleeping when the computer does, now that I have the USB drives disconnected temporarily. I have both Seagate and Western Digital USB drives; I can't see what drives are in the OWC enclosures without opening them up. I do intend to do more testing of specific combinations, but I don't have a lot of time for that just at the moment.

I have no USB drives attached and my FW drive never sleeps.

I too have issues with two OWC Mercury Elite Pro (western digital) drives not going to sleep unless the imac is shut down. Mine are daisy chained and it doesn't matter whether they are connected via FW400 or FW800. I have a 2007 Intel imac, and assumed I'd need to buy a new imac to use a FW to thunderbolt adapter. Just so I understand correctly, will the adapter not solve this issue either? Is my only other workaround to revert to Mountain Lion? (which I don't think I can do since I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks and do not have an install copy of ML)